Art

Resources on Art and Architecture.

Traditional Fine Art Online: in-depth essays and articles on international fine and decorative arts. Select "Chronological Index" to access by date/issue or browse subject list.

CARFAC Ontario is the association of professional visual and media artists.

Current information about exhibitions, calls for submissions, publications, performances, screenings, lecture series, and jobs related to visual culture in Canada.

Companion blog to the PBS series. Art21 was founded in 1997. It's mission was to increase knowledge of contemporary art, ignite discussion, and inspire creative thinking.

Documents the careers of some of Canada's leading professional artists, designers, and art writers as well as some important Canadian art institutions and organizations.

Information on major modern and contemporary artists as well as related art styles and techniques.

Selected articles from this magazine provide scholarly information on artists and art techniques. Search by keyword or topic (painting, photography, sculpture, etc.).

List of links, tutorials, information sites, and online articles. Information on specific drawing techniques, including Blind Contour, Mass-Gesture, Line Gesture and Continuous Line.

Information on pen and ink hatching, crosshatching and scumbling.

YouTube Video: Charcoal Drawing Basics - Art Supplies for Charcoal Drawing

From the title: Brushstrokes: The Painter’s Touch
The prominence of brushstrokes in a painting varies from nonexistent to dramatic according to the style and technique of the artist.

A resource for artists and art students who work with the human form focusing on accepted conventions of figure drawing.

An interesting site that discusses colour theory.

Instructions on how to matt watercolours and drawings

Want to learn how to mix your own oil paints? Watch this video.

Try this site on choosing the kind and shape of paint brushes. You'll also find articles on palette knives, turpentine and linseed oil, and the differences between oil, acrylic, and guache paint.

Database includes information on various molding, casting, and sculpting techniques for all materials (plastics, resins, cement, etc.)

Includes information on exhibitions

Choose "MAGAZINE ARCHIVES" to access articles on all aspects of contemporary sculpture.

Browse hundreds of images of contemporary sculptures by mediums, including ceramic, metal, mixed, stone and wood or by style including cubist, abstract, expressionist, etc.

Discover and view hundreds of artworks at incredible zoom levels. Take a virtual tour inside 17 of the world’s most acclaimed art museums, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art and MoMA in New York, The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Tate Britain & The National Gallery in London, Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence and Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.

Links to 100’s of museums worldwide including the National Gallery of Canada, the Guggenheim Museums, The Hermitage, and the British Museum

One of the largest collections in the world of painting, sculpture, and the graphic arts from the Middle Ages to the present. Users can search the collection by artist, title, or subject.

A virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassicism, Romanticism periods (1000-1850).

The site was selected by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for inclusion on EDSITEment as "one of the best online resources for education in the humanities."

Getty Publications Virtual Library
Free digital backlist titles from the Getty Publications Archives.